Changing the domain password policy

[Gary Collis <onesl1fox () 27 eclipse co uk>]

Hi List,

I am going to enforce some domain password standards on a w2k domain. I 
am going to set the password policy to a more complex level then it 
already is.

The questions I have are;

There are a number of service and application accounts to which 
developers have set a number of weak passwords. So my plan is to
contact the developers and request them to change passwords to these 
accounts, so applications and such do not break during transistion. What 
is the best way to do this?

In general is there anything else that anyone can recommend? What else 
should I consider? I am sure someone here must of done this before. What 
are your experiences of this?

When is the password policy enforced?

Does this affect the domain admin account?

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